Davis’ mom: Jessie a casualty of Cutts’ lying ways

Kelli Young

Thursday

Feb 28, 2008 at 12:01 AMFeb 28, 2008 at 12:59 PM

Patty Porter believes the words of a 3-year-old over the testimony of a 30-year-old. She said her grandson, Blake Davis, still tells her about the morning his mother, Jessie M. Davis, died. He has described his mother being in a rug, and that his daddy, Bobby Cutts, as being mad.

Patty Porter believes the words of a 3-year-old over the testimony of a 30-year-old.
She said her grandson, Blake Davis, still tells her about the morning his mother, Jessie M. Davis, died. He has described his mother being in a rug, and that his daddy, Bobby Cutts, as being mad.
“That’s why I didn’t believe a word Bobby said when he confessed,” Porter said Wednesday. “His name, that was the (only) truth (he told).”
Two weeks ago, Cutts testified that Blake was asleep when his elbow accidentally struck Jessie Davis’ throat. It was just another lie, Porter said.
“I think Bobby Cutts has lied for years and years,” she said. “His whole life has been built around a lot of lies.”
She believes he lied to balance the relationships he had with different women. Prosecutors say Cutts was juggling a number of girlfriends.
Cutts lied to his ex-wife, Kelly Schaub, and to Jessie, Porter said. They discovered he lied shortly after Jessie had a miscarriage.
“It was devastating for my daughter to realize that everything that he had told her was a lie,” Davis said. “He built a life of lies, and she just got caught in one of them.”
But Porter didn’t want Cutts to die for the murder of her daughter and her unborn granddaughter.
A Stark County jury Wednesday recommended that Common Pleas Judge Charles E. Brown Jr. spare Cutts’ life and sentence him to a life in prison. Brown’s sentence sends Cutts to prison for life, with the first possibility of parole in 57 years.
Porter said after the verdict that she forgives Cutts.
“Because I’m raising a child, and I did not want him sitting around one day waiting for his father to be killed,” Porter said.
Whitney Davis, Porter’s daughter and Jessie Davis’ sister, said Cutts’ punishment never would equal the punishment he’s given her family.
“He’s given us a life sentence. We have to go through the rest of our lives not having her,” she said.
But Porter believes, or hopes, that Cutts feels the remorse he spoke of on Monday when he pleaded for the jury to spare his life.
“I kind of feel that he is sorry,” Porter said. “I don’t know what he’s sorry for, I don’t know if he’s actually sorry he killed my daughter or if he’s sorry that he screwed up his life so much.”
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